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How to spot fake news
from WHAT'S THAT BUZZ
workshop 4
HOW WE SPREAD FAKE NEWS
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GETBADNEWS was an interesting and new tool for us to understand how easy is to create and spread fake news.
During the activity of exploring this website we could try ourselves in the skin of a fake news creator. In this website you can see how to make up news to polarize society, introduce consipiracy theories etc. and also how to spread the information, for example by creating fake news websites, fake accounts in social media.
By doing those activities we could watch how the page introduces with the follower numbers that you can gain by implementing your activities as a fake news creator. From all of us, the biggest number of followers was gained by Bubu - more than 21 000 fake news followers. And also it makes us think, how easy it is to disinform people and mislead them. This is why media literacy nowadays is so important for each of us!
